Police catch a 4-meter python between two Florida houses

Three police officers stationed in Naples, Southwest Florida (USA), to help with the cleanup and recovery work after the passage of Hurricane Ian, they caught a 4.2-meter python hidden between two houses, local media reported this Friday.

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According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, a resident called 911 after discovering a 14-foot python hidden in the bushes between two homes, prompting three police officers from Jacksonville, a city northeast of Florida, but they were in the area helping with recovery efforts.

After capturing the reptile that Wednesday night, one of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office deputies euthanized the animal, according to the sheriff’s office.

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“When three of the visiting officers from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office return home, they will have a story of historic proportions to share with their friends”The sheriff’s office in Collier, the county where the city of Naples sits and which is located just over 200 kilometers northwest of Miami, said in a Facebook post.

Last week, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) reported that a total of 231 Burmese pythons were eliminated in an annual ten-day competition that aims to combat this invasive species that threatens the balance environment in the Everglades, a gigantic protected wetland in that southern US state.

Matthew Concepción was the winner of the competition by eliminating a total of 28 individuals, for which he pocketed $10,000 paid by the Bergeron Everglades Foundation, while Dustin Crum won another prize of $1,500 for killing the largest python, of a length of more than 3.3 meters.

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Shortly after Hurricane Ian passed through Florida, the FWC alerted authorities and neighbors to the risk of encounters with wild animals in urban settings.

Little more than a month after the passage of this hurricane, the state of Florida is trying to recover from one of the worst natural disasters in its history, which caused at least 119 deaths and property damage of tens of billions of dollars.

Ian made landfall on September 28 in the southern Florida coast of the Gulf of Mexico with winds of 240 kilometers per hour and then crossed the Florida peninsula from west to east to exit the Atlantic and later impact South Carolina.

Source: Elcomercio

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